Jacques-Louis Reverdin

Jacques-Louis Reverdin (August 28, 1842 - January 9, 1929) was a Swiss surgeon who was a native of Cologny. He studied at the University of Paris, and in 1865 became an "interne des hôpitaux". He 1869 he became an assistant to Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (1831-1920) in the surgical department at the Hôpital Necker in Paris. Afterwards he moved to Geneva, where he eventually became chief surgeon at the Hôspital Cantonal de Geneve, and a professor at the University of Geneva.

Reverdin is credited with performing the first skin allograft, and in 1869 while working in Paris, introduced the "pinch graft", which is a procedure for removing tiny pieces of skin from a healthy area of the body and seeding them in a location that needs to be covered. This procedure is sometimes referred to as a "Reverdin graft". His name is also associated with the "Reverdin suture needle", which is a specialized surgical needle.

In 1882, with his cousin and assistant Auguste Reverdin (1848-1908), he observed that myxedema occurred as a delayed complication when the thyroid gland is surgically removed. He documented his findings in an article titled "Note sur vingt-deux opérations de goitre", and on September 13, 1882 presented his observations to the Medical Society of Geneva.

References

* [http://www.artandmedicine.com/biblio/authors/Reverdin.html Note sur vingt-deux opérations de goitre]
* [http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session5/37/CL_otherhistory.htm History of Organ and Tissue Transplantation]
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia."

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